A1090 crash in Thurrock on 29 February 2004 at 01:05 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A1090 in Thurrock at 01:05 on Sunday 29 February 2004. The 33-year-old male driver of the Audi A6 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Feb 2004
- Sunday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48215, longitude 0.23286, in the RM19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chafford Hundred, West Thurrock and Purfleet-on-Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Purfleet-on-Thames, Thurrock, RM19 1SR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200F0076
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1090
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1993.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A1090 in Thurrock, 18 August 1993
At the same spotRef 19934200F0592
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A1090 in Thurrock, 5 February 2008
41 m awayRef 200842I045102
Slight
Ford Probe crash on the A1090 in Thurrock, 27 April 1997
45 m awayRef 19974200F0195
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 6 December 1984
45 m awayRef 19844200F0928
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1090 in Thurrock, 6 September 1981
63 m awayRef 1981420060422
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 11 August 1989
63 m awayRef 19894200F0744
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,393 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 20044200F0076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thurrock road accident statistics for 2004.